The Map of Hell painting by Botticelli is one of the extant ninety-two drawings that were originally included in the illustrated manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy. | mid-1480s-mid-1490s T he Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli is a manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy, featuring 92 full-page illustrations by Sandro Botticelli. These illustrations are regarded as masterpieces and among the finest works of the Renaissance artist. Most of the images are silverpoint drawings

The Cardsharps by Caravaggio, 1700 " T he Cardsharps" is a renowned painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio, created around...

Hieronymus Bosch, The hell panel from The Garden of Earthly Delights The Hell Panel by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights is one of the most striking and complex parts of this triptych painting. The work itself, created around 1490–1510, is an allegorical and highly surreal exploration of paradise, earthly pleasure, and the torments of hell. T ake closer look at the elements within this panel: Surreal and chaotic imagery are populated by grotesque

Outwitting the Devil is a book by Napoleon Hill that wasn't published until after his death, as it was deemed too controversial to...

Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" is one of the most iconic images in art history, created around 1490. This drawing is a study of the...

During the Renaissance, many artists—including Titian and Raphael—depicted patrons who were essentially cultural usurpers of their time,...

Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819–1823, by Francisco Goya "Saturn Devouring His Son" is a chilling painting by Spanish artist Francisco...

The success of Titanic can be attributed to its compelling mix of historical drama, romance, innovative visuals, emotional narrative, and...

Jean-Leon Gerome, The Large Pool Of Bursa In 1885, French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme produced "The Large Pool of Bursa." When...

Love regardless of gender, age, identity - gender and sexuality are two different things. Absolutely, technically and scientifically, a...

Is performance art lying? Yes, performance art is a method of lying. Lies have no boundaries between good or bad, right and wrong, and in...

In the Stone Age, humans could only utilise pottery wheels to create clay blanks, and in the Bronze Age, humans used metal to improve...

The Elixir of Life is an alchemical drink which extends life, created using the Philosopher’s Gold Stone. The elixir must be consumed...

Phryne before the Areopagus

Jenny Holzer’s “Men Don’t Protect You Anymore” 1983 - 1985 Men Don’t Protect You Anymore, because a part of men protect another group of...

Imagine going on a party, when you enter people tell you that there is a spy and a sniper with no skill and you can be randomly killed...

To the dismay of his dean, who would stop at nothing to prevent him, a well-liked high school student Ferris Bueller chooses to take a...

People express themselves and sense the world in a variety of ways with varying tastes. However, after viewing some of the artwork and...

Art can be repulsive in a multitude of ways. The unnerving thing about grotesque art, or as it is more commonly called, frightening art,...

Art, located between tradition and modernity, emphasizes the role of emotion and morality in economic behavior, considers the society as...